Tag: Garrett Oliver

Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of The Brooklyn Brewery, has earned a 2014 James Beard Foundation Award for Excellence in the category of “Outstanding Wine, Beer or Spirits Professional.” This is Oliver’s first James Beard award, one of the highest honors in the culinary and beverage fields, but he has been previously nominated in this category and... View Article

(Press Release) NEW YORK—Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of The Brooklyn Brewery and a contributor to All About Beer Magazine, has won the 2014 James Beard Foundation Award for Excellence in the category of “Outstanding Wine, Beer, or Spirits Professional.” Often referred to as “the Oscars of the food world,” the James Beard Foundation Awards, celebrated in a... View Article

A new partnership between The Brooklyn Brewery and the Culinary Institute of America will bring a brewery to the CIA’s Hyde Park, NY, campus, where students can study beer and make their own brews. The seven-barrel brewhouse will be in the CIA’s student union and dining area. Initial brews, which include a lager and pilsner... View Article

Looking Back at a Quarter Century of Business, Beer and PeopleJanuary 1, 2014 - Stan Hieronymus

Fifty-six American breweries began operating in 1988. By necessity, 55 of them started small. That they all started 25 years ago was mostly coincidence. Noteworthy breweries opened in pretty much every one of the years before and after. But ultimately, as Goose Island Beer Co. founder John Hall put it, “It was a special year.”... View Article

My journey in beer began in the 1970s. During that decade and into the early ‘80s, the beer landscape was bleak throughout most of this country but especially in my native South Carolina. American beers were generally flavorless thirst quenchers and European beers were usually stale or skunked. Despite the sad state of the beer... View Article

Having once judged Iron Chef America, I thought this assignment was fun. And a lot of my favorite cooking is based on what’s interesting in the market today, or even what’s in my refrigerator at the moment.

Aristotle observed, in his classic work Metaphysics, that “the whole is more than the sum of its parts.” He may not have been talking about beer when he said that, but then again, he was on to something. Over the past decade or so, there’s a trend that’s been slowly building as craft brewers are... View Article

The panel above the entrance says “Bier und Weinstube”—beer and wine lounge. Inside, in a neat antique setting, all the guests appear well off. Take the couple at the next table: the man in a tweed jacket with a small, straight-sided glass has already finished his white wine. The woman in a red vest and... View Article